Christopher Talampas

It’s never too early to get ready for Valentine’s day, it seems, even when it comes to malicious attacks. Recently, I came across a scam in Facebook that leverages the upcoming occasion. The said attack begins with a post on affected users’ wall inviting other users to install a Valentine’s theme into their Facebook profile….

The latest Facebook scam leverages Breaking Dawn Part 2 and leads to survey pages that steal personal data such as cell phone numbers and email addresses. Who wants free tickets to The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2? To most, specifically to cybercriminals, the real question is, “Who wouldn’t?” We have encountered several incidents of clickjacking on…

Recently, while chatting with someone on Facebook, one of my friends surprised me when she sent me this: Out of curiosity and suspicion, I visited the link. This eventually led me to the following site, which was hosted at http://{BLOCKED}atingchatnetwork.com/facebook/index.php. Users who input their Facebook credentials here would be surrendering their credentials to phishers. Phishing…

I recently came across a round of spammed instant messages that arrived via my Yahoo! Messenger account. These messages were supposedly sent from my cousin’s account, and used the following format and were sent to everyone on her friends list: The familiar message format told me that I was chatting with a bot that wanted…

Trend Micro threat analysts were recently alerted to a phishing attempt targeting random employees of several companies. The email posed as a notification from the company’s “system administrator,” reminding the employee to update his/her system’s software due to a recent server software upgrade. The spammed email contained a URL using several subdomains that resolved to…